On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:25:02 +0100
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2012 07:33:59 -0400
> Rich Freeman wrote:
> > Some other questionable ones:
> > emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open
>
> We've had this discussion before... The question is not "are people
> likely
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On 07/15/2012 06:15 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
> On 15 July 2012 04:46, Peter Stuge wrote:
>> Markos Chandras wrote:
>>> understand that quizzes is not an ideal way to "hire" people
>>> either, but they worked ok for all these years
>>
>> I don't kno
On Saturday 14 of July 2012 10:32:04 Markos Chandras wrote:
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> Dear Gentoo Community,
>
> If you are not a recruit, mentor, or wannabe mentor you may stop
> reading now.
>
> We (recruiters) decided to revert back to the quizzes for the
> recru
(Please consider quoting only what is relevant. Thanks!)
Markos Chandras wrote:
> In my opinion, the quizzes contain all the knowledge that is
> required for someone to start developing for Gentoo. Yes, maybe
> it requires too much knowledge
So which is it? "All that is required" or "too much?"
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
> Davide Pesavento wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier
>> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
>> > Davide Pesavento wrote:
>> >
>> >> > [...]
>> >> >> + # backward co
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800
Ben de Groot wrote:
> The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
> been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as Gentoo
> dev, and the second time I did the quizzes it took me 3 months.
> I've seen others take a long time doing
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 9:02 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Rich Freeman posted on Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:57:41 -0400 as excerpted:
>>
>> I doubt anybody has tried it, so you'll have to experiment.
>
> "Anybody" /anybody/, or "anybody" on gentoo? FWIW, there are people
> running it in gen
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 6:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> I've been managing my own overlay and a few private ones for a few
> years now, all while using catalyst to build more or less customized
> Linux systems for me and for others.
>
> I dive into bugzilla when a bug bites, and I'll usually generat
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800
> Ben de Groot wrote:
>> The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
>> been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as Gentoo
>> dev, and the second time I did the quizzes
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:59 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:25:02 +0100
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 6 May 2012 07:33:59 -0400
>> Rich Freeman wrote:
>> > Some other questionable ones:
>> > emboss - Adds support for the European Molecular Biology Open
>>
>> We've had this
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
Davide Pesavento wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny
> wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
> > Davide Pesavento wrote:
> >
> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexis Ballier
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:26:58 +0200
On 15 July 2012 21:27, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Ciaran McCreesh
> wrote:
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:15:26 +0800
>> Ben de Groot wrote:
>>> The first time I did the quizzes, it took me 9 months. After having
>>> been away for a couple of years, I recently returned as
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:45:25 +0800
Ben de Groot wrote:
> It's not that it takes all that much time. It can be done in say one
> or two workdays. But you need to set aside a block of time (and
> usually two, one for each of the quizzes, or more if you need to
> break it up or iterate over it after
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > you need to set aside a block of time (and usually two
>
> ...and you don't need to be able to put in that level of attention
> every now and again when you're a developer?
Not the same amount of meta time, no.
I agree with the estimate of about two days for the quizze
On 15 July 2012 21:50, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:45:25 +0800
> Ben de Groot wrote:
>> It's not that it takes all that much time. It can be done in say one
>> or two workdays. But you need to set aside a block of time (and
>> usually two, one for each of the quizzes, or more
# Michael Palimaka (15 Jul 2012)
# Bundles dev-python/pexpect (bug #315843)
# Replaced by ssh-copy-id from net-misc/openssh.
# Removal in 30 days.
net-misc/ssh-installkeys
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> less idiotic
> idiots such as perhaps myself need years because we're doing
> whatever work as opposed to learning foundation bylaws by heart.
Well, I don't think the bylaws are a terribly important topic for the
quizzes, and unless somethin
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
> Davide Pesavento wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny
>> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
>> > Davide Pesavento wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Alexi
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:36:05 +0200
Davide Pesavento wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michał Górny
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
> > Davide Pesavento wrote:
> >
> >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Michał Górny
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 12:29:59 +0200
>
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:53 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:36:05 +0200
> Davide Pesavento wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Michał Górny
>> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 13:00:47 +0200
>> > Davide Pesavento wrote:
>> >
>> >> On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Micha
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On 07/15/2012 11:11 AM, Peter Stuge wrote:
> (Please consider quoting only what is relevant. Thanks!)
>
> Markos Chandras wrote:
>> In my opinion, the quizzes contain all the knowledge that is
>> required for someone to start developing for Gentoo.
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Ben de Groot wrote:
> Certainly. But it is likely much more interesting work and has
> considerably more impact.
The mentoring period and the review have considerable impact too.
Whether you think one is more important than the other depends on you
thinking short
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 08:30:31 -0400 as excerpted:
> Looking at the docs it seems like you'd need a hook for the cmdline
> stage that sets rootok (assuming it gets that far without a root, or if
> you set it to something like root=TMPFS). Then you'd install a hook to
> mount to
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> So I have the general idea,
> but doing it from an initr* with limited tools available will be
> interesting.
>
Dracut modules can specify any tools they need, and they will be
loaded into the initramfs. Obviously you'll want
Is it valid to do something like:
move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythgame media-plugins/mythplugins
move media-plugins/mythmovies media-plu
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:08:45 -0500
Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Is it valid to do something like:
>
> move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
> move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
> move media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins
> move media-plugins/myth
On 07/15/2012 03:08 PM, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> Is it valid to do something like:
>
> move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
> move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
> move media-plugins/mythgallery media-plugins/mythplugins
> move media-plugins/mythgame media-p
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 17:08:45 -0500
> Doug Goldstein wrote:
>> Is it valid to do something like:
>>
>> move media-plugins/mytharchive media-plugins/mythplugins
>> move media-plugins/mythbrowser media-plugins/mythplugins
>> move media-plugin
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 05:58:25AM +, Duncan wrote
> They're seriously thinking about (and may be planning on) removing
> that option from the kernel entirely, to keep people configuring
> their first kernels from getting themselves in trouble, but of
> course that's now part of the kernel/use
The attached list notes all of the packages that were added or removed
from the tree, for the week ending 2012-07-15 23h59 UTC.
Removals:
net-misc/remmina-plugins2012-07-09 02:47:44 floppym
gnustep-apps/projectmanager 2012-07-09 08:42:59 voyageur
gnustep-apps/keyarcher
Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:48:55 -0400 as excerpted:
> Giving it a little thought, the simplest tmpfs-based root would be one
> that defines a tarball as a the root. The system would create a tmpfs,
> extract the tarball to it, and then use the existing fstab-sys module to
> mount
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Rich Freeman posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2012 14:48:55 -0400 as excerpted:
>
>> Giving it a little thought, the simplest tmpfs-based root would be one
>> that defines a tarball as a the root. The system would create a tmpfs,
>> extr
On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 3:30 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
> Thinking in that direction does stimulate yet another idea, tho. What
> about a squashfs root? AFAIK squashfs is read-only at use time, thus
> enforcing actually mounting something else to write anything, eliminating
> many o
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